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Category: Chart of the Week
27
Oct
2015
Looking Under the MLP Hood
Maybe it’s because we’re so close to Halloween, but we can’t help but be drawn to the carnage in the MLP space. Recently, investors’ multi-year treat has turned into a trick as of late. How spooky has it become? Well, after nearly quadrupling investors’ money from April of 2009 through April of 2014, the Alerian […]
04
Dec
2015
Star Wars: The Fan’s Guide to Investing
We’re officially two weeks away from the premiere of, “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” We couldn’t help ourselves but create an infographic for Star War fans to navigate to the galaxy of investments.
01
Feb
2016
The January 2016 Litmus Test
Managed Futures performed just as we expect them to in a market crisis – finishing off January up +4.13%.
01
Mar
2016
The Gold Bugs are Back
Don’t look now, but the Golden child of commodities is creeping back in the limelight – riding a near 20% up move so far this year back into relevance
10
Mar
2016
Guest Post: 10 Warning Signs of an Uncertain Market
Just what’s on the mind of some of the sharpest investment managers out there? We were lucky enough to have Mike Melissinos
14
Mar
2016
The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns
The idea is to teach you visually about diversification – with the eye hopefully able to see that no one asset class (color) is always at the top of bottom of the rankings.
21
Mar
2016
Think You’re Diversified? Crude Oil Has Other Ideas
It seems we’re all more correlated with the Oil markets than we might think.
24
Mar
2016
Commodity Markets in Contango
Here are the Contango/Backwardation curves of 9 Commodity Markets extending into 2017.
29
Mar
2016
The Looniness of the Canadian Loonie and Oil Sands
Many are blaming the Loonie’s downward move on crude oil’s recent drawdown, the largest drawdown in history.
